Irvine, Punching Logs in the Gulf of Mexico, 1907 270

The Church of the Ascension 276

"Happy Hollow," Mr. Irvine's Present Home Near
Peekskill, New York 294

Happy Hollow in the Winter, Looking from the House 298




FROM THE BOTTOM UP




CHAPTER I

BOYHOOD IN IRELAND


The world in which I first found myself was a world of hungry people.

My earliest sufferings were the sufferings of hunger--physical hunger.
It was not an unusual sight to see the children of our neighbourhood
scratching the offal in the dunghills and the gutterways for scraps of
meat, vegetables, and refuse. Many times I have done it myself.

My father was a shoemaker; but something had gone wrong with the